Hi minna-san!

Break is here and I'm ready to deliver more NLL! I'm also laying out a back- story for REMEMBER. I realized I need to explain a lot more than I thought I needed.

Well, anyway, here's our next chapter! Enjoy!!!

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That night not a person could stay awake very long. Goku and Chi-

chi went to bed first. Soon all of his friends followed suit. So by ten

Krillin and Gohan's snores filled his room, Yamcha snoozed on the

floor, Tien and Cho-zu were back-to-back on one couch, while Picoolo

slept on the other one. Even Setsuna fell asleep on the windowsill. The

night wore on until the grandfather clock struck midnight. An eye

opened at the tone, It's iris full of malice. Next the other eye opened.

A smile appeared on the feminine face. She gently set both feet on the

floor and tiptoed her way towards the sleeping Namek, her footfalls so

light that not even his keen hearing could detect movement. She set

herself down besides him, her hand cupping his chin.

" You sleep so deeply tonight. So much like him......" The woman

sighed and looked out the window. Suddenly she leaped up, teeth held

tightly together and eyes aflame. That wench!

" Everthing. Friends. Home. Acceptance for what she was. Love

unbridled! Everything that was and never will be mine!" Her voice,

once smooth, now spat out her words. But her temper swiftly cooled as

she surveyed herself.

" But soon I will rip the crystal from her heart! Once he falls into

my trap, I will have the ability to make the pure girl's heart tainted and

then-!" She trailed off, as if she didn't want to give away her plans to

the dark home. She sat on the poof by the window and smiled. Oh yes.

Tomorrow would be the day! All her plots would soon be complete and

she would be the greatest in the planes of exhistance!

".....And my revenge on that damn god will be complete!"

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The Son home was busy that day. Chi-chi had woken up at the crack

of dawn to get breakfast ready. What she prepared looked to feed an

army. Of course, trying to feed 3 Saiya-jins, an unusually hungry

Namek, 4 Human and a Plutonian was by no means an easy task! Chi-

chi, done cleaning the dishes, looked around for Setsuna.

"Krillin, where did Setsuna go? And...Picoolo's gone too." Krillin

looked up.

" Dunno Chi-chi-san. I think the headed towards South city

though."(*eerie music*LOL) Shrugging, she went into the living room

where the others were. A few miles away Setsuna sat on a large rock,

leaning back into Picoolo. It was warm out and the sun shone on the

couple. They had landed at the Kitano shrine, just North of South city.

Setsuna got up, pulling a sleepy Namek with her. The roses sparkled as

they walled through them. She stopped, smiling, and turned to him.

" What did you love before me?" He started, but hugged her and

answered. " Something I regret caring about. Set-" He stopped as she kissed

him. Failing to speak at her new forward behavior, he returned the kiss

tenfold, so by the time they stopped both were in need of air. both

smiled at each other, Picoolo somewhat akwardly since he rarely ever

did such as thing. He hugged her, letting her head fall on his sholder.

Cold eyes stared into the cave behind him, malicious in every way. A

scream erupted from the cave.

" The trap is sprung." Setsuna let go of Picoolo, letting him see the

look in her eyes.

" What the devil?" But he failed in his next sentece as a woman

pounced on him. He was about to hit her when he saw her face. It was

Setsuna. Her eyes were red and angry, tears spilled down her face.

" I-I didn't-want to believe her! But you don't care about me! You r-

regret loving me?!" Picoolo only stared at her, mouth open. He chanced

a look at the other Setsuna, but she was gone. Hatsumomo stood there

instead.

" See dearie, he can never love you properly. You should stick with

the man you saw at Serenity's ball. a man unheld by pride...... unlike

this man, so like your father." Her face grew dark. Picoolo cursed

himself.

" A trick! Damn my stupidity!" Setsuna began her assault on him.

Her eyes showed betrayal in every fleck.

" No Setsuna! She tricked you! Ho could you believe I'd love anyone

but you?!?" Setsuna however, didn't listen, and with a kick to the

stomach, felled him. She then stood by Hatsumomo.

" I believe her more than you Picoolo!" His heared froze. How could

she not believe him?

" But Hatsumomo! She's the enemy! What kindness has she ever

done for you?" Setsuna bit her lip.

" This woman? she gave me life of cource! This is my mother

Picoolo." his eyes grew wide at this. But Setsuna's mother had died

when dhe fought to defend Setsuna and her father, Chronos!

" But she-"

" died? on no...mother survived. Because the darkness of the real

Hatsumomo saved her. You see, both Momo and mother were caged

women. And both found comfort in Dark Nautica, the essence of all

evil!" Tears still brimmed her eyes. Setsuna's glare targeted Picoolo so

intensely that what happened next caught her compleatly offguard.

Hatsumomo's hand shot into her back and out again, clutching a

crystal. Setsuna whirled around, all wile screaming in pain.

" You forgot one part child. Both are my slaves. Thank you for being

such a good puppet and" She firgered the clean,dark jewel," for your

Pluto crystal!" One kick sent Setsuna flying into Picoolo's arms. She

had not an ounce of blood on her, nore was there a wound, but she

screamed in pain once more.

" Puu-chan! Oh Kami be alright!!! Talk to me Puu! Please!" Her

eyes opened wearily to him.

" Without my crystal I cannot transform or even live much longer. I

I am so sorry. I-thought y-you be-tra-yed me." Her mouth went slack.

" No! You were fooled by that-Nautica being! Please don't die!" She

smiled.

" I'm sorry.....ai-ai-shite-ruyo (I love you) Goodbye." And with that

her skin lost it's youthful palor and dark red eyes closed on the world.

Back at the Son home, all felt her death, but none more than Picoolo.

" Setsunaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!"